WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Select changes since RC1:
■The security fixes included in WordPress 3.0.4
■Fix issues related to handling a static front page
■Fixes and enhancements for the pagination buttons
■Fix searching for partial usernames
■Properly reactivate plugins after editing them
■Always show the current author in the author dropdown when editing a post
■Fixes for attachment taxonomies
■Fix node removal for the admin bar
■Fix the custom post type show_in_menu argument
■Various fixes for right-to-left languages
■and a few dozen more changes
If you are testing the release candidate and think you’ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know:
■Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
■Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
■Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
■File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac
To test WordPress 3.1, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip).
If any known issues crop up, you’ll be able to find them here. If you’d like to know which levers to pull in your testing, check out a list of features in our Beta 1 post.
Download : WordPress 3.1 RC2